Fairfield Avenue, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Fairfield Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Fairfield Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (100) and tree cover (53). Housing (33) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Street condition is the most-filed complaint on Fairfield Avenue, with 20 reports. Across every category, 42 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name street condition. After that the file runs to residential noise (18 reports) and water system (10). In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on Fairfield Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Fairfield Avenue carries roughly 15 reports per 100 of them.
Fairfield Avenue carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 20 residential buildings on Fairfield Avenue holding 287 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, Fairfield Avenue ranks 94 on parking and 70 on traffic safety. That 70 on traffic safety puts Fairfield Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 82 and quietness at 80. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 45 and transit at 44. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. Fairfield Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where Fairfield Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 96.
About 2% of the 287 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 5 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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Fairfield Avenue runs through Riverdale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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